Presentation Guide
- General guidelines
- Present as to a smart non-expert.
- Assume everyone has read the paper, but not understood it.
- You may use whatever aids you wish (computer, overheads, blackboard), but none are necessary.
- A formal presentation is not necessary, focus on discussion.
- Remember that the goal of this course is to learn how to evaluate models. Focus on the model evaluation. To do so, it will be necessary to describe what is being modeled.
- The psychological theory.
- The empirical design and data.
- The presentation should take between 1 to 2 hours.
- Expect lots of interruptions.
- Please feel free to give your own opinion.
- Make up some discussion questions.
- Ask the group questions you had.
- Feel free to leave out anything you think is unimportant. There will not be time to go over everything.
- Paper specific
guidelines (These are rough guidelines, presented in no order, and not all points may apply to all papers).
- Describe the psychological goal of the research.
- Relevant background.
- The psychological theory being tested
- Describe the empirical work.
- The goal of each important experiment and how it relates to the
- The experimental methods.
- The exerimental results.
- Describe the model.
- Review the necessary mathematical background (assume the audience is familiar with the general ideas).
- Describe the model in detail.
- Evaluate the model.
(This is not meant as a laundry list, focus on what is important.)
- Did the model help us learn anything?
- Was the model necessary?
- Was the particular implementation necessary
- Goodness of fit.
- Interpretability.
- Explanatory adequacy.
- Simplicity.
- Falsifiability.
- Generalizability.
- Faithfulness.